This goes with that: You: an Achilles’ apple / Blushing sweet on a high branch / At the tip of the tallest tree. / You escaped those who would pluck your fruit. / Not that they didn’t try. No, / They could not forget you / Poised beyond their reach. < Sappho, c. 600 BC
rshive about 5 years ago
Nature works that way sometimes.
Radish the wordsmith about 5 years ago
An apt description of Newtonian physics vs karma from ignorance.
InTraining about 5 years ago
Could be the life story for any one of us…. but only if the apple is rotten…!
Ed The Red Premium Member about 5 years ago
The Giving Tree was a chump.
Perkycat about 5 years ago
I had to laugh out loud at this! So true, so true! Life!
Zebrastripes about 5 years ago
The law of nature, don’t stand under the Apple tree with nobody else but…..
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 5 years ago
Horace no horse kick? You play the almost horse and now a conk on the noggin for your trouble.
Grayhair, The Pirate Formerly Known as Tom Powell Premium Member about 5 years ago
Humor. Samson nails it again!
Argythree about 5 years ago
This is why the old saying about ‘if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again’ is actually horsefeathers…
chris_weaver about 5 years ago
It needed the proper motivation!
waltermgm about 5 years ago
That’s why I sit down for a while before tackling any project.
PappyFiddle about 5 years ago
This goes with that: You: an Achilles’ apple / Blushing sweet on a high branch / At the tip of the tallest tree. / You escaped those who would pluck your fruit. / Not that they didn’t try. No, / They could not forget you / Poised beyond their reach. < Sappho, c. 600 BC
Physicsfreak about 5 years ago
Horace 0: Tree 1